"I think it is all a matter of love the more you love a memory the stronger and stranger it becomes "
- Vladimir Nabokov
"We are all the pieces of what we remember. We hold in ourselves the hopes and fears of those who love us. As long as there is love and memory, there is no true loss."
- Cassandra Clare
"What greater thing is there for two human souls, than to feel that they are joined for life--to strengthen each other in all labor, to rest on each other in all sorrow, to minister to each other in al..."
- George Eliot
"I loved you so much once. I did. More than anything in the whole wide world. Imagine that. What a laugh that is now. Can you believe it? We were so intimate once upon a time I can't believe it now. Th..."
- Raymond Carver
"Memory is a funny thing. When I was in the scene, I hardly paid it any mind. I never stopped to think of it as something that would make a lasting impression, certainly never imagined that eighteen ye..."
- Haruki Murakami
"And I'll dance with you in Vienna,I'll be wearing a river's disguise.The hyacinth wild on my shouldermy mouth on the dew of your thighs.And I'll bury my soul in a scrapbook,with the photographs there ..."
- Leonard Cohen
"We all have an old knot in the heart we wish to untie."
- Michael Ondaatje
"You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving."
- Amy Carmichael
"If you didn't remember something happening, was it because it never had happened? Or because you wished it hadn't?"
- Jodi Picoult
"Ten long trips around the sun since I last saw that smile, but only joy and thankfulness that on a tiny world in the vastness, for a couple of moments in the immensity of time, we were one."
- Ann Druyan